Ok, so last week, at the halfway mark through July, I noticed that the numbers for Iraq had dramatically improved.
Reviewing the numbers this week, things are still on track for a great month. 28 coalition deaths in Iraq so far, 20 of which were due to hostile action. I wonder if that capture of the large weapons cache in Mosul helped?
Injuries are at 369, so I suspect the injuries will be about typical for the post-Abu-Ghabib period probably ending up in the low 500's.
Iraq Military and police deaths are still down, and they've been seeing more action lately.
As I suspected last week, while July started out slow, the number of Iraqis killed by car bombs and such jumped with the events of last week. The number of people killed is almost up to June's level. Still the number of bombings is lower.
Attack's on Iraqi Oil and Gas infrastructure is lower still.
Hmm... Electricity generation is up, the power has been on an average of 13 hours/day in July. That's really important given how hot it is...
Comments (1)
Clearly, some things are getting better, some are getting worse. It’s hard to imagine the Iraqi people letting the terrorists and Ba’athist remnants win this thing, especially as the political process moves forward and Iraqis take charge of more of their own security.
Posted by Will Franklin | August 4, 2005 8:14 PM
Posted on August 4, 2005 20:14